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旧约 阿摩司书 3:1–5:27
新约 启示录 8:1–12

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旧约阿摩司书 3:1–5:27

前情提要

上回说到

昨天(1–2 章):阿摩司宣告神要审判以色列四围的列国:大马士革、迦萨、泰尔、以东、亚扪、摩押,也审判犹大;最后矛头转向以色列:他们为银子卖了义人,为一双鞋卖了穷人。

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神说“在地上万族中,我只认识你们”,所以更要追讨以色列的罪(3 章);撒马利亚的妇女像巴珊的母牛欺压穷人,神一再降灾,他们仍不归向神(4 章);阿摩司为以色列唱哀歌,呼唤“要寻求耶和华,就必存活”,并说神厌恶没有公义的节期和献祭(5 章)。

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“惟愿公平如大水滚滚,使公义如江河滔滔”:神要的不只是热闹的敬拜,而是公平和公义像不干涸的河水,在生活中不断涌流。

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阿摩司书反映耶罗波安二世时北国的繁华:考古在撒马利亚发现许多精美的象牙雕饰,正好对应 的象牙房屋。

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阿摩司书 第 3 章

只认识你们,所以追讨

1以色列人哪,你们全家是我从埃及地领上来的,当听耶和华攻击你们的话:Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

2在地上万族中,我只认识你们;因此,我必追讨你们的一切罪孽。“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

二人若不同心,岂能同行

3二人若不同心,岂能同行呢?Can two walk together without agreeing where to go?

4狮子若非抓食,岂能在林中咆哮呢?少壮狮子若无所得,岂能从洞中发声呢?Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?

5若没有,雀鸟岂能陷在网罗里呢?网罗若无所得,岂能从地上翻起呢?Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?

6城中若吹角,百姓岂不惊恐呢?灾祸若临到一城,岂非耶和华所降的吗?If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

7主耶和华若不将指示他的仆人—众先知,就一无所行。Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

8狮子吼叫,谁不惧怕呢?主耶和华发命,谁能不说预言呢?The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?

撒马利亚的扰乱与欺压

9要在亚实突的宫殿中和埃及地的宫殿里传扬说:你们要聚集在撒马利亚的山上,就看见城中有何等大的扰乱与欺压的事。Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”

10那些以强暴抢夺财物、积蓄在自己家中的人不知道行正直的事。这是耶和华说的。“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”

11所以主耶和华如此说:敌人必来围攻这地,使你的势力衰微,抢掠你的家宅。Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”

从狮子口中抢回的残余

12耶和华如此说:“牧人怎样从狮子口中抢回两条羊腿或半个耳朵,住撒马利亚的以色列人躺卧在床角上或铺绣花毯的榻上,他们得救也不过如此。”This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch.

伯特利的祭坛必被毁

13主耶和华—万军之 神说:当听这话,警戒雅各家。Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.

14我讨以色列罪的日子,也要讨伯特利祭坛的罪;必被砍下,坠落于地。On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.

15我要拆毁过冬和过夏的房屋。也必毁灭;高大的房屋都归无有。这是耶和华说的。I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.

阿摩司书 第 4 章

巴珊的母牛

1你们住撒马利亚山如母牛的啊,当听我的话—你们欺负贫寒的,压碎穷乏的,对家主说:拿酒来,我们喝吧!Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

2主耶和华指着自己的圣洁起誓说:日子快到,人必用钩子将你们钩去,用鱼钩将你们余剩的钩去。The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

3你们各人必从破口直往前行,投入哈门。这是耶和华说的。You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,” declares the LORD.

任你们往伯特利去犯罪

4以色列人哪,任你们往伯特利去犯罪,到吉甲加增罪过;每日早晨献上你们的祭物,每三日奉上你们的。“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.

5任你们献有酵的感谢祭,把宣传报告给众人,因为是你们所喜爱的。这是主耶和华说的。Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.

你们仍不归向我

6我使你们在一切城中,在你们各处粮食缺乏,你们仍不归向我。这是耶和华说的。“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

7在收割的前三月,我使雨停止,不降在你们那里;我降雨在这城,不降雨在那城;这块地有雨,那块地无雨;无雨的就枯干了。“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

8这样,两三城的人凑到一城去找水,却喝不足;你们仍不归向我。这是耶和华说的。People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

9我以旱风、攻击你们,你们园中许多菜蔬、葡萄树、无花果树、橄榄树都被剪虫所吃;你们仍不归向我。这是耶和华说的。“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

10我降瘟疫在你们中间,像在埃及一样;用刀杀戮你们的少年人,使你们的马匹被掳掠,营中尸首的臭气扑鼻;你们仍不归向我。这是耶和华说的。“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

11我倾覆你们中间的城邑,如同我从前倾覆所多玛、蛾摩拉一样,使你们好像;你们仍不归向我。这是耶和华说的。“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

预备迎见你的神

12以色列啊,我必向你如此行;以色列啊,我既这样行,你当预备迎见你的 神。“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

13那创山、造风、将心意指示人、使晨光变为幽暗、脚踏在地之高处的,他的名是耶和华—万军之 神。For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

阿摩司书 第 5 章

为以色列作的哀歌

1以色列家啊,要听我为你们所作的哀歌:Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

2以色列民(原文是处女)跌倒,不得再起;躺在地上,无人搀扶。“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

3主耶和华如此说:以色列家的城发出一千兵的,只剩一百;发出一百的,只剩十个。This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will have but a hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

寻求我,就必存活

4耶和华向以色列家如此说:你们要寻求我,就必存活。For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!

5不要往伯特利寻求,不要进入吉甲,不要过到;因为吉甲必被掳掠,伯特利也必归于无有。Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

6要寻求耶和华,就必存活,免得他在约瑟家像火发出,在伯特利焚烧,无人扑灭。Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

7你们这使公平变为、将公义丢弃于地的,There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

8要寻求那造和参星,使死荫变为晨光,使白日变为黑夜,命海水来浇在地上的—耶和华是他的名;He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

9他使力强的忽遭灭亡,以致保障遭遇毁坏。He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

在城门口屈枉穷人

10你们怨恨那在责备人的,憎恶那说正直话的。There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

11你们践踏贫民,向他们勒索麦子;你们用凿过的石头建造房屋,却不得住在其内;栽种美好的葡萄园,却不得喝所出的酒。Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

12我知道你们的罪过何等多,你们的罪恶何等大。你们苦待义人,收受贿赂,在城门口屈枉穷乏人。For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

13所以通达人见这样的时势必静默不言,因为时势真恶。Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.

14你们要求善,不要求恶,就必存活。这样,耶和华—万军之 神必照你们所说的与你们同在。Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

15要恶恶好善,在城门口秉公行义;或者耶和华—万军之 神向约瑟的余民施恩。Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

16主耶和华—万军之 神如此说:在一切宽阔处必有哀号的声音;在各街市上必有人说:哀哉!哀哉!又必叫农夫来哭号,叫善唱哀歌的来举哀。Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

17在各葡萄园必有哀号的声音,因为我必从你中间经过。这是耶和华说的。There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.

耶和华的日子是黑暗

18想望耶和华日子来到的有祸了!你们为何想望耶和华的日子呢?那日黑暗没有光明,Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

19景况好像人躲避狮子又遇见熊,或是进房屋以手靠墙,就被蛇咬。It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

20耶和华的日子不是黑暗没有光明吗?不是幽暗毫无光辉吗?Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

惟愿公平如大水滚滚

21我厌恶你们的节期,也不喜悦你们的严肃会。“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

22你们虽然向我献燔祭和素祭,我却不悦纳,也不顾你们用肥畜献的平安祭;Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

23要使你们歌唱的声音远离我,因为我不听你们弹琴的响声。Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

24惟愿公平如大水滚滚,使公义如江河。But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

25“以色列家啊,你们在旷野四十年,岂是将祭物和供物献给我呢?Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

26你们抬着为自己所造之的帐幕和偶像的龛,并你们的神星。You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

27所以我要把你们掳到大马士革以外。”这是耶和华、名为万军之 神说的。Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

摘要

先知阿摩司宣告神对以色列的审判:因他们行强暴、欺压贫穷人、扭曲公义,神必降灾惩罚。尽管神多次以饥荒、旱灾、瘟疫警告,百姓仍不悔改归向祂。神呼吁以色列人“寻求我就必存活”,要恶恶好善、秉公行义,让公平如大水滚滚、公义如江河滔滔,而非以虚伪的宗教仪式代替真实的顺服。

反思问题

  1. 在生活中,我是否曾像以色列人一样,用宗教活动的外表来掩盖对公义与怜悯的忽略?
  2. 神多次管教以色列人,他们却“仍不归向神”。回顾我的生命,有哪些神反复提醒我、我却迟迟不愿改变的地方?
  3. “惟愿公平如大水滚滚,使公义如江河滔滔”——在我的工作、人际关系和社群中,我可以如何具体地实践公平与公义?

新约启示录 8:1–12

前情提要

上回说到

昨天(7 章):天使在神众仆人的额上盖印,以色列各支派受印的有十四万四千;接着约翰看见无数穿白衣的人站在宝座和羔羊面前,羔羊必牧养他们,神必擦去他们一切的眼泪。

今天你会读到

羔羊揭开第七印,天上寂静约有二刻;七位天使拿着七枝号,另一位天使把众圣徒的祈祷和香一同献在金坛上,又把坛上的火倒在地上();前四位天使吹号,灾祸各击打地、海、江河、日月星的三分之一()。

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留意 –5:圣徒的祈祷上达神面前之后,审判就开始了,回应了 殉道者的呼求。前几样号灾也令人想起出埃及时的灾殃(雹、血、黑暗)。

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号筒在旧约用来召集百姓、宣告节期和战争(),耶利哥城也是在吹角之后倒塌()。

启示录 第 8 章

第七印:天上寂静

1羔羊揭开第七印的时候,天上寂静约有。When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

七位天使拿着七枝号

2我看见那站在 神面前的七位天使,有赐给他们。And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.

圣徒的祈祷与香

3另有一位天使,拿着金来,站在祭坛旁边。有许多香赐给他,要和众圣徒的祈祷一同献在宝座前的上。Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.

4那香的烟和众圣徒的祈祷从天使的手中一同升到 神面前。And the smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, rose up before God from the hand of the angel.

5天使拿着香炉,盛满了坛上的火,倒在地上;随有雷轰、大声、闪电、地震。Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

6拿着七枝号的七位天使就预备要吹。And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

第一号:地被烧了

7第一位天使吹号,就有与火搀着血丢在地上;地的三分之一和树的三分之一被烧了,一切的青草也被烧了。Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.

第二号:海变成血

8第二位天使吹号,就有仿佛火烧着的大山扔在海中;海的三分之一变成血,Then the second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood,

9海中的死了三分之一,船只也坏了三分之一。a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

第三号:茵蔯星

10第三位天使吹号,就有烧着的大星,好像从天上落下来,落在江河的三分之一和众水的泉源上。Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

11(这星名叫“”。)众水的三分之一变为茵蔯,因水变苦,就死了许多人。The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil, and many people died from the bitter waters.

第四号:日月星黑暗

12第四位天使吹号,日头的三分之一、月亮的三分之一、星辰的三分之一都被,以致日月星的三分之一黑暗了,白昼的三分之一没有光,黑夜也是这样。Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.

摘要

羔羊揭开第七印后,天上寂静约半小时,随后七位天使依次吹号。众圣徒的祈祷如香升到神面前,之后天使将坛上的火倒在地上,引发雷轰、闪电与地震。前四枝号带来对地、海、江河与天体的审判,各有三分之一遭受毁坏,显明神审判的严厉与渐进。

反思问题

  1. 启示录描述圣徒的祷告如香升到神面前——这如何影响我对祷告的信心,特别是在看似无回应的等待中?
  2. 前四枝号的灾祸逐步影响大地、海洋、水源和光体,这种渐进的审判对我理解神的公义与忍耐有什么启发?
  3. 面对末世审判的严肃图景,我今天的生活态度和优先次序是否需要调整?具体可以怎么做?